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Yehuda Fuchs (יהודה פוקס)

Colonel Yehuda Fuchs (right in the picture) is the military commander of Hebron (2007). He is IDF commander of the Hebron Brigade.

Fuchs is originally from the Ukraine.

Fuchs is a religious Commander from the Shaham Battalion.
Since Fuchs was appointed as a military commander of Hebron, he issued many military orders against Palestinians. He converted the Palestinians old city of Hebron into a jail.

Fuchs locked all the entrances of old city with metal gates, the keys are kept by his soldiers.

He locked the street inside Al-Kasabah market with big blocks of stone.

He blocked the windows of Palestinians in the old city with metal plates, and forbade them to re-open the windows "for security reasons".

Fuchs renewed the orders denying the Palestinians from raising the call prayer at the Abraham Mosque.

On June 6, 2007, soldiers under the command of Yehuda Fuchs murdered Yehya Isaq al-Jabari of age 67, shot his wife Fatima of age 60 in the head. The two sons of the couple, Kamal and Raja, were also shot and wounded in the same incident. A video of the incident from Al-Jazeera is here (YouTube). In case it is taken down, another copy will be posted.

On July 3, 2007, soldiers of IDF Brigade Commander Yehuda Fuchs murdered, premeditatedly and in cold blood, the 14-year-old child Ahmad Mohsen Al-Sukafi in the south-west of Hebron, after they had occupied a building near the home of the Al-Sukafi family for 4 days and observed everything occurring in the neighbourhood.

August 2007, Bar-Ilan University Prof. Hillel Weiss, who is the father of a daughter, who has a son-in-law and six grandchildren, who are illegal settlers who live in the stolen vegetable market in Hebron, called for the death of Colonel Yehuda Fuchs, he cursed Colonel Fuchs during the settlers eviction from the Palestinian shops, he said that he hoped that Yehuda Fuchs’s mother would be bereaved, his wife widowed and his children made orphans.

Colonel Yehuda Fuchs himself encouraged settlers to insult him. He said "I have no problem with them, thirteen years ago I took at an oath at the Western Wall to defend the citizens of Israel (settlers in the occupied territories) with my life and I am proud to be doing that, even though my friends in Tel Aviv don't understand how it's possible for me to guard with delight even those (settlers) who call me a Nazi. My views are totally irrelevant to the issue; I am not the policeman of the State of Israel, I am only a soldier. The moral position I undertook involves only my subordinates. I am not here to judge people's (settlers) opinions, I am here to enable people (settlers) to express opinions".

Yehuda Fuchs is a culpable of crimes against humanity. He contributes to the ethnical cleansing of Hebron, hasordered Palestinian civilian non-combatants be murdered and implemented other measures which correspond to the definition of genocide in the Geneva conventions.

Any further information about Yehuda Fuchs is welcome, especially any information which helps secure an international arrest warrant on charge of crimes against humanity against him.

Information which helps identify the other soldiers in the picture, and any information linking them to indictable crimes against humanity, is also welcome.